Pocket match box



Jan. 29 1924.

A. M. BENNER POCKET MATCH BOX Filed Jan. '9, 192s I Inventor, Z W 717. 18W.

Patented den. 29, 122%.

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Application filed January 9, 1923. Serial No. 611,654.

1 '0 all who 221. 2'75 may concern Be it known that I, An'rrinnlvl. Bn-NNnn, a citizen oi. the United States, residing at Olympia, in the rounty of Thurston and State of V1 ashington, have invented a new and useful. P c et Match Box, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to improvements in pocket match boxes, in which matches are carried in the pockets of ones clothing or in a hand bag; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to eliminate several complications of a similar improvement specified in application, No. 462,326, for aatent on a pocket match box filed April 18, 1921, by myself and son, George M. Benner; second, toproduce a. pocket match receptacle that, although housing an operating mechanism, contains a maximum number of matches, which, due to the novel operation of said mechanism, may be used one at a time with no danger of spillingthe remaining matches, and without experiencing any of theinconveniences of the ordinary box such as inserting thumb and finger in the mouth of the box, or shaking the matches part way out that a match may be grasped andthird, to effect an assemblage of interior parts that they may be lifted from the box, intact as one piece, for cleaning or repairing.

l attain these objects by a mechanical device, an inner casing, a raised floor, and a slitted elastic which covers an opening in saidboxs cover; all being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical View of a mechanical device as shown by removing the adjacent end wall of the box;

Fig. 2 is' a longitudinal, vertical section of the match box and mechanical device;

Fig. 3 is a vertical view of the mechanical l'e vice from the interior ot the box;

Fig. 4; is a plan of thebox and interior parts; i

Fig 5 is a top view of the boxs cover, with transverse and longitudinal vertical sections thereof, 7

Fig. 6 is plan and elevations of the raised floor; and

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the inner casing. i

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawing. I

attachment 18 (Fig. 3), and

necting loar19 (Fig. 1).

The interior of this pocket match box comprises two vertical chambers; one very nar-' row 8 (Fig. 4) containing said mechanical d vice, and the other AB very large, having its interior broken near the center by bent in ends 9 of an inner casing.

Matches in said box, be they few or many, must be approximately upright 1 therein;

therefore, to utilize chamber AB, whose length exceeds that of a match, said bent-in ends 9 of said inner casing are used, which also allow said matches to shift from A to B, j

and vice versa, thus eliminating the sliding partition used in the former box referred to in the oath herewith.

Said inner casing Fig. 7 has sidewalls 10,

onecomplete end wall 11, and the said hen't-' projections 14 (Figs. 2 and 7) which protrude through corresponding openings 15 (Fig. 6) in said raised floor'tl, end-Tare clinched against, or soldered to, the under surface 01 said floor. i

The said mechanical device, or operating mechanism, consists of a lazy tongs 16 (Fi 1 and a spring 17 (Fig. 1), a slotted toota slotted con- The lower first joint 20 (Fig. 3) of said tongs 16 is pivoted to an upwardly-bent end 21 of saldraised floor 6. To the upper and last joint 22 (Fig. 3) is pivoted the upper end of the said foot attachment 18 whose toe portion 23 3) extends through, and plies within, the said slot 13 (Figs. 4 and 7); The upper surface of this toe 23 is sharpshod, and is just below the upper surface of:

the said raised floor 6 when the said ing mechanism is at rest. Between the said lazy tongs 1.6 and the adjacent end wall. of said boxs outer cas ing, is the said connecting bar 19 whose operatlower end is pivoted to the lower end 2 1 of said tongs 16, and to whose upper extremity v V is attached a. finger-engaging member 25 (Fig. 2) whose neck element 26 plies in a slot 27 in said end wall of said outer casing.

' The said spring 17 (Fig. 1) rests between the lower ends of the said tongslll and connectin bar 19, and the bottom of the match box. isy pressing downward. on the said above its fulcrum point 20' and said spring 17 is tcnsioned sufiiciently that on releasing said finger-engaging member 25, said mechanism is. broughtto its original position by said spring.

The said spring 17 may be omitted and the said mechanism be allowed to function by force of gravity, although the spring is surer and sater.

The said: lazyt'ongs 16 is guided and held in its proper vertical movement by one of itsupper assembling rivets 28 (Fig. l) which plies countersunkenly inslct- 29' in the said connecting bar 191. The said foot attachment 18 is guided likewise by the lower assembling rivet 30 (Fig.3). V

The cover (Fig, 5) of; this match box has its rim deeply channeled, 31 (Fl 5), snngly engage the rim of said he pivoted thereto a friction latch 32 whose ends are swung througl sings in the inner wall; 33 of said channel 31,, and into openings 3% (Fi t 2) in the upper end of the si ew lls a ai box;-

In'this cover (Fig, 5'), directly opposite thesaid groove 12 the end wall ll of the said inner casing, is, an opening which is covered by at least one thickness of a slitted elastic (Fig. 5), through which match may be pushed, and which afilords enough friction to prevent said match from being entirely ejected from said; match box.

I am not awarethat prior-to my invention a pocket match. box such as mine has ever .0 been patentechor described any publicatio I 1-- I In this match box, I do not claim the outer casing, the lazy tongs, the spring, or the finger-engaging-- member, but

I claim: 7

1. Ina pocket match box, a toot attachment having a longitudinal slot therein, and whose toe portion is sharp-shod on, its upper surface. V

2. Ina pocket match box, the combina tion of afoot attachment with a raised floor and a lazy-tongs, saidtongs being pivoted at a lower joint to an upwardly-bent end of said floor, and said foot beingpivoted by its upper end to the upper end of said tongs,

- its low r end, or toe portion, plying within motion being effected by the head of an elongated assembling rivet of said tongs which plies countersnnkenly within a longtitndinal slot in said manually-operated member and said foot being held in alignment by another tongs rivet which plies within a slot therein.

4. In a pocket match box, the combination of a manually-operated member, a Spring actua-ted lazy tongs, a raised floor, and an inner casing attached to said raised floor, with a foot attachment whose toe portion is sharp-shod on its upper surface, said tongs being pivoted at a lower joint to an upwardly-bent end of said fldor, said" manually-operated member being pivoted to the lower end of said tongs, and said foot beinc, pivoted by its upper end to the upper end of said tongs, said: toe portion of said foot extendingthru, and plying within a" longitudinal slot in a vertical groove in the one complete end wall of said inner casing, said slot registering with an ripening in said floorinto, which said toe drops, means be- *ovided whereby said pivoted members n-ilded' and held in alignment ztclati-ve to the casings of-saiidbox, and-to-ieach other.

5. In a pocket match box, the combination of an inner'casing with raised door, said c s g ing attached by itslc-w'er rim to floor, and haying-side walls and one em wall complete, said end, wall containing a vertical groove with a longitudinal slot therein which registers with an opening in said door, the free ends of saidside walls being bent inwardly, but not opposite each other, to form all incomplete end wall of saidinner casing, 1 i r V 1 All of which part-s" and combinations claimed, l'believe, are substantially asdescribed andil istrated,

ARTHUR M. BENNEIR; 

